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mortgage

[mawr-gij] / ˈmɔr gɪdʒ /
NOUN
loan agreement
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A Rocket analysis found 3.3% of home buyers under age 35 co-applied for a mortgage with someone over 55 in 2025, up from 2.5% in 2019.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

Rocket and United Wholesale Mortgage, the two biggest mortgage lenders, love this.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026

Jonathan Whitwam, who recently joined the Labour Party, works in finance and says, in addition to his mortgage, his biggest outgoing is supporting his two daughters through university.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Instead, they depend on six-month rates, one-year rates and five-year rates—up to 30-year mortgage rates and beyond.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

On May 19, 2005—a month before the terms were finalized—Mike Burry did his first subprime mortgage deals.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

This is how mortgages came to make up 62 percent of FICO’s “Scores” revenue in the most recently announced quarter.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026

The firm already restructured another underperforming real-estate investment trust in January, selling $9 billion of commercial-property mortgages to the firm’s insurance company, Athene.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

The program would not be funded by taxpayers, but instead by the interest charged to borrowers on their down payment loans, also referred to as second mortgages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

This is causing central banks to hike their own benchmark rates, heaping pressure on businesses and individuals holding loans, including mortgages.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

The trick was finding them before others did—finding, for example, that both Moody’s and S&P favored floating-rate mortgages with low teaser rates over fixed-rate ones.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Not terribly long ago, Cleveland mortgaged its future believing that Watson was its savior.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

To finance “I Am Frankelda,” Roy and Arturo mortgaged two homes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

Put differently, the average mortgaged homeowner now spends more than a full month’s housing payment each year on insurance.

From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026

To raise the money for the $100 million-plus production, he mortgaged his seaside Santa Barbara, California, estate.

From Seattle Times ● May 19, 2024

One afternoon, Elizabeth listened to a widow named Flora Campbell tearfully explain that, without her consent, her husband had mortgaged the farm that had been in her family for years.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

“Russia would be further mortgaging its future for the sake of military gains,” said Alexander Kolyandr, a director at the consulting firm Eurasia Group.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

He’s a strong candidate for a team that wants a front-end starter without mortgaging the future.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2025

Mid-cap players are mortgaging chunks of their businesses to get in on the action, too.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025

But if they stay in an attempt to hold on to a core piece of identity, are they mortgaging their future?

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 12, 2023

Almost immediately, the financial slide began, but was artificially buoyed by extravagant bank loans that Chacko raised by mortgaging the family’s rice fields around the Ayemenem House.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy


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